For people admiring culture of India, but the leading secular way of life and striving for peace at home, suitable as an ethnic Indian style and colonial.And the first, under the strong influence of the Muslim East, is rich in decoration and the use of expensive materials, while the second, thanks to the European colonizers - austere, laconic, but has easily readable ethnic lines.
Wall - plastered and painted in soothing warm beige, yellow, orange, terracotta and red shades, application technique rude.The walls can also be painted ornaments and genre scenes from the life of the heroes of the epics.The color of the walls can be a cold blue-green shades.
ceilings - drawn as walls, or decorated with carved wooden panels.
floors - terracotta tiles or wide wooden board, characteristic of all species of colonial style.
Windows - perfect if they are arched, covered with carved wooden bars.
Doors - massive wooden decorated with wooden carvings and inlays.
furniture in the Indian interior deserves a separate discussion.
for traditional Indian furniture are characteristic "stumpy" proportions, carved legs, through the abundance of wood carving, inlay, painting.Usually furniture in the interior is not much.Signed items:
1. low table on straight legs (what Europeans will then be called "coffee table"), decorated with carvings;worktop can be covered with glass, it can be made of marble;
2. stool, ottoman, too short, upholstered velvet rich colors (red, green, blue, purple);
3. sets of tables and stools of varying heights, so that they can be put under each other;
4. folding screens, through ornate wood carvings, stone and inlaid with ivory.
All the furniture is mainly dark, lacquered.Separately, noteworthy items in silver combined with a velvet or silk upholstery.Such collections are now at the peak of popularity.They are supplemented with small drawers dressers and bookcases.
Textiles and accessories
in wealth Indian style is not inferior to the Arab, in many ways they resonate.Boxes, vases with high necks, copper and silver utensils, metal stamping, water pipes, trays and so on. Just not listed.
Special attention is paid textiles.He is everywhere - silk and velvet curtains on the windows, stoles and canopies, canopies over the beds, a huge number of decorative pillows, silk and woolen carpets and panels.Wrought iron lamps with inserts of colored glass of different shapes, caravans statues of elephants and others.
To complete the picture, add the interior lamps and incense bowl with floating candles in them.And every night in this house will be romantic.
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